Nigeria school attack: why US hasn't sent Special Forces to rescue girls

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Nigeria school attack: why US hasn't sent Special Forces to rescue girls

The United States is sending eight military personnel to Nigeria to offer intelligence assistance following the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls, but if Washington were serious about helping find them, why not offer up a contingent of US Special Operations Forces to help do the job?
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That is the question posed by some lawmakers, who note that such rescue and extraction missions are, after all, a Special Ops specialty. And how tricky could it be, they add, to overpower a brutal, but military undisciplined, rebel group?

There's not much we can do by sending in troops to rescue the Nigerian school girls, because soon as they see soldiers they'll start slaughtering them. If the Boko Haram separate themselves from the girls holding area, we could theoretically drone attack them but we'd need a coordinated ground assault to eliminate all threats and take control of the rescue.

Now, Intelligence indicates that many of the girls may have been split up into small groups and moved to different locations, and these locations are remote and difficult to penetrate.

Instead of searching for one group of 250 girls, law enforcement and the military are likely looking for 25 groups of 10 girls or 50 groups of five girls. This poses an enormous challenge and diminishes the possibility of a dramatic rescue that will bring this crisis to a quick close.

The campaign to apply pressure by reaching out through social media, using the Twitter hashtag '#BringBackOurGirls,' protests have spread across the world calling for the Nigerian government to take stronger action and for the international community to help.

The point is, what can we do and should we be trying to help more?

I'm not sure this countries citizens (Hollywood), gov't and Media know when and what to fight.

Einstein, "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Re: Nigeria school attack: why US hasn't sent Special Forces to rescue girls

There's not much we can do by sending in troops to rescue the Nigerian school girls, because soon as they see soldiers they start slaughtering them. If the Boko Haram seperate themselves from the girls holding area, we could theoretically drone attack them but we'd need a coordinated ground assault to eliminate all threats and take control of the rescue.

Now, Intelligence indicates that many of the girls may have been split up into small groups and moved to different locations, and these locations are remote and difficult to penetrate.

Instead of searching for one group of 250 girls, law enforcement and the military are likely looking for 25 groups of 10 girls or 50 groups of five girls. This poses an enormous challenge and diminishes the possibility of a dramatic rescue that will bring this crisis to a quick close.

The campaign to apply pressure by reaching out through social media, using the Twitter hashtag '#BringBackOurGirls,' protests have spread across the world calling for the Nigerian government to take stronger action and for the international community to help.

The point is, what can we do and should we be trying to help more?

I'm not sure this countries citizens (Hollywood), gov't and Media know when and what to fight.

Heya Grip. According to some.....they have split the girls into groups now. Also some are saying the Nigerian Military knew this attack was coming. Plus they only asked for our help not more than a few days ago.

Re: Nigeria school attack: why US hasn't sent Special Forces to rescue girls

Originally Posted by MMC

Heya Grip. According to some.....they have split the girls into groups now. Also some are saying the Nigerian Military knew this attack was coming. Plus they only asked for our help not more than a few days ago.

I feel terrible about it, like most normal people would, but we're not able to always fix everything with military power and money.

Einstein, "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Re: Nigeria school attack: why US hasn't sent Special Forces to rescue girls

Of course, if Clinton had designated this group as a terror group when the evidence was presented to her two years ago, we would be better suited to handle the situation. We could have better intelligence and may even be able to recover some of the girls quickly. We may have even gotten lucky and prevented the attack all together.

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Re: Nigeria school attack: why US hasn't sent Special Forces to rescue girls

Originally Posted by grip

Obama sends mixed signals of being tolerant of the Muslim religion in general but prosecuting the extremists forms of it. Most of the Sharia Laws are not favorable to women.

I agree with you that this became a Media induced outcry and Hollyweird has jumped in.

Oh Indeed it did Grip.....here is how much all are playing on this.

Boko Haram’s New War Song: “We Will Enter Churches and Slaughter Christians…”

In a video explaining how they attacked Giwa Barracks earlier this month, the Nigeria-based Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, also sang songs about how they plan to continue targeting Christians, churches, and the country at large.

Sahara Reporters brings you the latest from the Religion of Peace (emphasis mine):

As a result of attacks by Boko Haram and “uncontrolled reprisals” by Nigeria’s security forces, there have been more than 1,500 deaths in the country in 2014 so far, according to Amnesty International. Boko Haram is responsible for more than half of the killings, however, which includes “scores of schoolchildren who have been the victims of deliberate attacks.”

According to the United States Institute of Peace, Boko Haram believes "the politics in northern Nigeria has been seized by a group of corrupt, false Muslims" and therefore wants to wage a war against them, the Nigerian government, military, and civilians in order to "create a "pure" Islamic state ruled by sharia law." .....snip~